Does Android Self-Correct?

[Emmi331]

It's an odd question, I know. I have a Galaxy S8. The other day there was a huge glitch on Samsung Pay, and I had to spend an hour & a half on the phone with Samsung to fix it. The procedure may have affected something else, since the next day I was denied the internet on my phone. What worked was powering it down, then back on, and the internet returned. But wait! There's more.
Within a day the phone was again refusing to let me access the internet. At some point it said I had an authentication error. I had tried the usual solutions, but did not want to keep powering the phone off just to have the internet for two hours.
To make a long story longer, I simply decided to take the phone into a reliable phone repair shop nearby the following day. I did not power it down, I just left it alone. Lo and behold, the following day everything was working fine and still is (but for how long?)....How did this happen - does the Android possess miraculous powers of self-healing? I truly want to know if it is able to correct its own problems without my help.
The good news is I had no repair bill to pay.
Thanks for reading this far - any thoughts on this?

 

[Mike Dee]

Too many variables to determine. Phones don't self heal so something may have been conflicting. Could be a third party app or maybe a temporary bad connection. Instead of restarting you probably could have turned airplane mode off and on and achieved the same results

 

[Emmi331]

I did turn it on and off....didn't seem to change anything.

And today the phone is refusing to let me on the internet through my wifi connection, though I can access it through my mobile network.

And the drumbeat of phone temperament goes on....

Maybe the darn thing will self-correct again.

 

[mustang7757]

I did turn it on and off....didn't seem to change anything.

And today the phone is refusing to let me on the internet through my wifi connection, though I can access it through my mobile network.

And the drumbeat of phone temperament goes on....

Maybe the darn thing will self-correct again.

You can go into settings>search bar type reset network settings.

 

[Rukbat]

Or you can try a McDonald's or Walmart or some other public WiFi. It's not impossible that the problem is something in your router that's only affecting your phone.

 

[Emmi331]

I acknowledge my wifi router is getting old - and probably cranky. I should get it replaced soon....

 

[Emmi331]

You can go into settings>search bar type reset network settings.

And then what? I am not tech savvy! Thanks....

 

[mustang7757]

And then what? I am not tech savvy! Thanks....

Hi, tap it to reset the networks , you'll lose any previous saved network and need to sign in again.

 

[Emmi331]

Hi, tap it to reset the networks , you'll lose any previous saved network and need to sign in again.

Thanks, and I don't mind doing this, but will I lose anything else? This sounds like a disaster waiting to happen lol....

 

[Mike Dee]

Thanks, and I don't mind doing this, but will I lose anything else? This sounds like a disaster waiting to happen lol....

Fear no danger...only network sign in's will be lost

 

[mustang7757]

Thanks, and I don't mind doing this, but will I lose anything else? This sounds like a disaster waiting to happen lol....

No nothing else .

 

[B. Diddy]

I also wonder if some 3rd party app you installed is causing this problem. You could try booting into Safe Mode and using it that way for a while (you'll only be able to use preinstalled apps, not anything you installed). If the problem doesn't happen in Safe Mode, then something you installed is causing the problem.

https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-34283